Improvement in whip-sockets



A. .7. Km.

WHIP-SOCKET.

Patented Dec. 5,1876.

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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

ALBERT J. KIDD, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN WHIP-'SQGKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 185,035, dated December 5, 1876; application filed August 7, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT J. KIDD, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Whip-Holders, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to look a whipstock in a holder, so that it cannot be taken from said holder without first unlocking the lock with a key. 1

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a view of a vertical section of whip-holder and lock 5 Fig. 2, a top view.

A, Figs. 1 and 2, is the Whip-holder, near the bottom of which is placed the lock. B O are the jaws of the lock. B is afixed jaw; O is a movable jaw. When the whip-stock is thrust down into the holder A the button D, on the end of the stock E, strikes the inclines F on the jaws B and O, and forces back the movable jaw O, and passes below the lips Gr of the jaws B and C; then the movable jaw O springs back and embraces the button in the lips Gr,-as seen in Fig. 3, by which means the stock is held fast. The jaw O is held against the jaw B by means of the springs H and I.

The key K is inserted in a hole, L, in the jaw l. The jaws B and O, as constructed with the lips G, in combination with the spring I, as shown and described,'and for the purpose set forth.

2. The jaws B and G, constructed, as shown, with the lips G, in combination with the spring H, as shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

3. The jaws B and O, and the springs 11 and I, in combination with the whip-holder A,

as shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

ALBERT J. KIDD.

Witnesses:

F. J. SEYBoLD,

J. M. INGRAHAM. 

